BILL NUMBER: ACR 69	CHAPTERED  09/27/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   140
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 10, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 9, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 3, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Briggs

                        JUNE 10, 1999

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 69--Relative to Lao-Hmong New
Year Celebration.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 69, Briggs.  Lao-Hmong New Year Celebration.
   This measure would proclaim November 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1999, as
days for the celebration of the Lao-Hmong New Year in the City of
Sacramento, and December 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, 1999, and
January 1 and 2, 2000, as days for that celebration in the City of
Fresno.




   WHEREAS, Following the Communist takeover in Southeast Asia in
1975, many people were dislocated from their native homeland; and
   WHEREAS, The United States has welcomed over 152,000 Lao-Hmong
refugees of whom more than 62,000 have made the Golden State their
new home; and
   WHEREAS, For the Lao-Hmong community, the New Year Celebration is
traditionally the most important and only holiday away from the
otherwise constant routine of work; and
   WHEREAS, The Lao-Hmong New Year Celebration traditionally begins
on the first day of the lunar month and stands as the spiritual and
material marker between the old year and the new year; and
   WHEREAS, November 25, 1999, represents the beginning of the
Lao-Hmong annual lunar cycle; and
   WHEREAS, It is important for all Californians to recognize the
sincere efforts of our new Lao-Hmong American residents to integrate
into our society, and to weave their most important and elaborate
holiday into the cultural fabric of California; now, therefore, be it

   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
hereby proclaims November 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1999, as days for the
Celebration of the Lao-Hmong New Year in the City of Sacramento, and
December 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, 1999, and January 1 and 2, 2000,
as days for that celebration in the City of Fresno; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for distribution.
